OT - Sexual predators aren't the only kind around. Imagine paying full bucks for EA's Star Wars ' Battlefront II', and then discovering it takes 60,000 credits of in-game grinding to 'unlock' characters like Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader? Obviously, extending the opportunity for you to drop more $ on EA for the opportunity to play the characters you bought the game in the first place for. Having caught the strong odor of late-Beta players telling EA 'eff you' for doing something that heinous, EA 'walked it back' today, citing it's deep appreciation and valuing of the player's community feedback on making the game experience better.  Their concern is so very touching.

And INTC and Micron have had to 'walk back' some of the original claims about Optane (that's INTC's word) for the first new memory since flash. Some of that is performance expectations, some of that is economics, and some of that is the limitations and overhead of current protocol constrictions. The upshot seems to be that the initial hopes that it would just mop the floor with everyone else in memory standards is not all that realistic.  And they point out that flash took 20 years after its invention to become mainstream:

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In the meantime, PCI-E 3 based NVME modules seem to be the best thing a gamer can do to improve storage speed. And Western Digital (and probably Samsung) have a big footprint in that. Although Optane based DIMMs should appear soon - but at what speed, and at what price?